BANGKOK: Thailand's senate voted to maintain the kingdom's 451 troops in Iraq despite mounting danger and withdrawal announcements by at least three countries from the US-led coalition, a senator said today. "The vote was 68 to 50 which means that my motion (to pull Thai troops from Iraq) failed," Karoon Sai-Ngam, the senator who sponsored the motion, told AFP about the closed door. Thailand's upper house, where a group of senators has pushed for the troop withdrawal, consists of 200 members, but only 124 attended the session, with six abstentions.
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